Joep Langen is a social entrepreneur, (TEDx)speaker, and moderator. Although he started his career as organizational psychologist and transition consultant, he changed course in 2014, and co-founded Koeckebackers, a commercial sustainable do-good company, which gives opportunities to young disadvantaged adults by offering them a job and a professional talent development programme. People with a distance to the jobmarket are offered a 12-month Social Impact Traineeship trajectory which includes a paid job in the cookie-factory, but also coaching, sports, workshops, training and reflection-meetings. Joep and his colleagues believe that this will not just benefit their staff, but also wider society. Their ultimate goal: make people feel that they are seen, inspire and motivate other companies to copy-paste their do-good activities, and bake darn good cookies.

In this episode, Joep explains:
Why consciousness is the number one thing we all need for the future
Why leaders have to become more courageous and vulnerable than ever before
Why they built a blueprint for other companies to use, free of charge
Why inclusivity-debates all too often miss the point: to be human, is to long to be seen.


More about Joep:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/werkmetjoep/
More about Koeckebackers:
https://koeckebackers.nl/

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